May
Okay, so my worst fears come true. We’re not prepared, we haven’t done our homework on who’s in what ship, and what they’re planning. We decide to enforce the blockade (remember Kennedy? remember Cuba?) in international waters. We send these guys in who are expecting peaceniks and get attacked. They turn up the heat, all hell breaks loose.
I woke up to it this morning, like when a nightmare comes true.
Demonstration doesn’t take long to materialize.
I don’t like the blockade but these things are not so simple. I don’t think the soldiers could have behaved differently once attacked. Of course I would have put rice in their tanks and not boarded, since it’s clear that the flotilla can’t be the ones determining what goes into a country, especially a country that’s throwing rockets at us all the time. And they certainly can’t be the ones setting the precedents. But because there were so many different people on those ships, with all kinds of different goals, much much more care should have been taken. Nevertheless, I repeat, El Kayda and Iran were running this show.
